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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Manapparai Murukku/Tamil Nadu Special Manapparai Murukku

Manapparai Murukku, its one of the popular deep fried snacks which is quite famous for its unique taste in Tamil Nadu. Murukku is a quite famous snacks you can find anywhere in South India especially in Tamil Nadu. But this Manapparai murukku is the best among the varieties of murukkus available anywhere. Murukku business is a cottage affair in Manaparai,like Tirunelveli halwa, Kancheepuram idli these murukkus are well known for its nativity. Actually this murukku was sold to the train passengers through refreshment stall at the Manapparai railway station earlier in 20th century. This murukku is prepared simply with rice flour, flavoured with sesame seeds, ajwain seeds, cumin seeds and asafoetida powder which gives a wonderful flavor to this deep fried snacks. The speciality of this murukkus is, they are deep fried twice to get a golden colour thus you can differentiate easily with the other murukkus from the original Manapparai murukku.

Manapparai and its murukkus are inseparable and the traditional way of making this murukku belongs to the last century. Whoever hails from Tamilnadu know very well about this famous murukku and today am posting my small bite sized crispy Manapparai murukkus i prepared specially for this month's Indian Cooking Challenge,a monthly event where we cook dishes from various regions of India.For this month's challenge, Srivalli suggested us this popular Tamil Nadu's Manapparai murukku. Actually the original recipe goes for just rice flour,since i had a doubt i called my mom to check with her, but she insisted me to add roasted urad dal powder, thank god i called her else my murukkus would have went wrong. However the combination of rice flour and roasted urad dal worked wonder. Trust me, these murukkus are dangerously addictive and none cannot stop just with one.

I love Murukku & this one looks so tempting. The moment I saw this on fb, I wanted to come & check for the recipe. BTW my mom makes Murukku by using only rice flour & it turns out yummy. I will check on her recipe & post it soon.

umma used to make this for our summer vacation here in Doha when we were small;the jar was never on the shelf,always used to be on the dining table so that we can take it every now and then...this looks real crispy an yummy :)